Search Bar Within List View in Android

In this article I explain how to build a simple list view and how a search bar works within a list view in Android. When we work on a type list and we want to search for data using a search bar in a list view, how the data is filtered and becomes a filtered result is explained.

So we can do all this using the following procedure.

Step 1

First of all create a new project file as shown below using "File" -> "New" -> "Android Application Project".

Step 2

Now open the "activity_main.xml" and update it as Edit txt and List view as in the following code: